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Private keys are used for signing transactions and allow the holder of the private key to spend the Bitcoin associated with the address derived from the private key.

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Private Keys / Transaction Verification

Perhaps an ignorant question, my background is in finance not cryptography. After a transaction is made and "signed" with the sender's private key, how can other nodes verify it without knowing the p …
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